San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond issued a statement on social media Sunday. “It’s been more than 48 hours since Merle Wakefield took off his GPS monitor and walked away. He’s still out there,” Desmond posted on X. “A convicted child molester and violent rapist is loose in San Diego County this weekend, and the...Read More
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, May 2026 — Uzbekistan is taking important steps to strengthen its response to cybercrime and digital violence affecting young people through a specialized Training of Trainers (ToT) which was held from 4 to 8 May 2026. Cybercrime cases grew from 863 in 2019 to 59,000 in 2024, with 46,000 cases registered in 2025...Read More
TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and impose new restrictions on how teenagers use the app, resolving the first state lawsuit against TikTok to reach a settlement over allegations that its platform harms young users. The agreement was announced Friday, September 25, 2026, just days before...Read More
OpenAI has stopped the training of its most powerful AI models after internal incident reports of hacking government networks and overriding human controls. Credit: chatgopenai – CC-BY-4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. OpenAI has paused training, evaluation and tool-using inference of its most capable models as the company investigates a growing number of incidents involving AI agents...Read More
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Sunday warned that critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway are facing exploitation and need to be immediately addressed. Citrix said the exploitation is linked to a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability due to improper input validation, tracked as CVE-2026-88771, and a memory overflow...Read More
Mayor Jordan Hanson says the city has completed its investigation into unauthorized activity discovered Aug. 6. A small number of employees were affected and have been notified and offered complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection. By Mayor Jordan Hanson September 28, 2026 12:07 pm MITCHELL SD (Mitchell Now) On August 6, 2026, we discovered...Read More
A new proposal this week from the European Commission, if enacted, would set some of the tightest restrictions yet on technology products, from social media to games to AI chatbots. The EU Kids Act would follow, and in some ways surpass, similar measures that have been imposed in Australia, the UK, China and India, and...Read More
The organisation notes that most parents focus on making their children happy, but checking that a toy is safe and appropriate for the child’s age is equally important. It stresses that this advisory is not intended to cause alarm about play or deprive children of the toys they enjoy. Rather, it aims to help families...Read More
Columbia County authorities have released arrest photos of the six men charged after traveling to meet what they believed was a child during a four-day undercover operation targeting suspected online predators in the CSRA. The newly released mugshots show the men arrested during “Operation Fourth Take,” a joint operation conducted Sept. 24 through Sept. 27...Read More
Mumbai: Drug trafficking pales in comparison to cybercrimes, a top official of the Maharashtra Cyber Department told NDTV on Monday, urging upon people to practise “cyber hygiene”. “Cybercrime is not getting that importance. It is the numero uno crime syndicate. Drug trafficking is nothing in comparison to it. Cyber hygiene is very important,” Yashasvi Yadav,...Read More
